Sarah Marie Wiebe
Biographic Data
| ID | 159184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Marie Wiebe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiebe |
| SIGNATURE | WIEBE S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2417-3614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grounded governance: Cultivating social justice through community-engaged learning with PepakeṈ HÁUTW̱ (Blossoming Place)
By deepening student relationships to local governance systems, they become better equipped to envision and enact the worlds they seek to create. This paper discusses a community-engaged learning initiative facilitated by a University of Victoria instructor that centered on the theme of “Grounded Governance” to anchor student learning about governance and social justice theories, movements and practices. The overall approach draws inspiration fro…
The beauty underneath: A critical coastal governance approach to revitalize indigenous shellfish harvest
Indigenous communities have feasted from their tidelands since time immemorial. Yet today, many are disconnected due to land development, pollution, overharvest, and colonial law. Coastal First Nations live within the reality of their inherent laws and ways of being, held in tension with the restrictions and confusion of Canadian laws, funding models and bureaucracies. There is a need to bring enriched understanding and clarity to coastal ecosyst…
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
Ecofeminism as scholarship and practice continues to polarize, draw criticism, and inspire scholarly works
Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: Better Together
Many people remain invisible in all stages of policymaking processes and are re/harmed by policy decisions made in their absence, even where public engagement has occurred. This lack of meaningful engagement affects those experiencing homelessness, migrant workers, northern and Indigenous women, and others with whom we have collaborated. This article demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ actors as legitimate a…
Limits of Nature, Limits of Critical Imagination
Crisis Atmospheres: Sensing Life on Alert, A Visceral Response to Timothy Luke’s Anthropocene Alerts
Layered conditions of crises punctuate this present moment. Our bodies are all, unevenly, affected by a worldwide state of emergency. In Anthropocene Alerts, Timothy Luke diagnoses the slow violenc
Fluid Decolonial Futures: Water as a Life, Ocean Citizenship and Seascape Relationality
Interrogating the settler-colonial governmentality of natural resource extraction lies at the heart of this article while centering relationships to water and emergent forms of ocean citizenship. This article articulates a seascape epistemology that conceives of water as a life force, not a resource, and offers a non-extractive way to conceptualize ocean citizenship. From an environmental justice orientation, this article responds to the followin…
Sensing policy: Engaging Affected Communities at the Intersections of Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures
Pushing back against an extractive approach to research to center relationships, this paper draws from ethnographic sensibilities and community vignettes to discuss what academic-activists and political scientists can learn from communities’ situated bodies of knowledge. Tensions emerge when those most directly affected by public policy decisions are excluded from the decision-making process. Consultation leaves many encountering a paradox: their…
Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in 'Chemical Valley
Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenou…
Guardians of the environment in Canada's Chemical Valley
Citizens of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation fight for justice with their bodies at the frontlines of daily toxic exposure. This paper examines struggles for environmental and reproductive justice in the polluted heart of Canada's 'Chemical Valley'. These are as struggles over life, land and knowledge. Based upon community-engaged qualitative research, from a participatory action research approach, including field immersion, participant observation a…
Re-Thinking Citizenship: (Un)Healthy Bodies and the Canadian Borde
The Canadian state screens potential citizens based on their physical and mental health in order to assess individuals' likelihood of becoming contributive and productive members of Canadian society. Immigrants are not only screened as potential security risks in a traditional sense, but appear in Canadian discourse as threats to economic stability. These potential citizens are consequently screened and surveilled for health concerns. This essay …
Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in 'Chemical Valley
Fluid Decolonial Futures: Water as a Life, Ocean Citizenship and Seascape Relationality
Interrogating the settler-colonial governmentality of natural resource extraction lies at the heart of this article while centering relationships to water and emergent forms of ocean citizenship. This article articulates a seascape epistemology that conceives of water as a life force, not a resource, and offers a non-extractive way to conceptualize ocean citizenship. From an environmental justice orientation, this article responds to the followin…
Sensing policy: Engaging Affected Communities at the Intersections of Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures
Pushing back against an extractive approach to research to center relationships, this paper draws from ethnographic sensibilities and community vignettes to discuss what academic-activists and political scientists can learn from communities’ situated bodies of knowledge. Tensions emerge when those most directly affected by public policy decisions are excluded from the decision-making process. Consultation leaves many encountering a paradox: their…
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: Better Together
Many people remain invisible in all stages of policymaking processes and are re/harmed by policy decisions made in their absence, even where public engagement has occurred. This lack of meaningful engagement affects those experiencing homelessness, migrant workers, northern and Indigenous women, and others with whom we have collaborated. This article demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ actors as legitimate a…
Guardians of the environment in Canada's Chemical Valley
Citizens of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation fight for justice with their bodies at the frontlines of daily toxic exposure. This paper examines struggles for environmental and reproductive justice in the polluted heart of Canada's 'Chemical Valley'. These are as struggles over life, land and knowledge. Based upon community-engaged qualitative research, from a participatory action research approach, including field immersion, participant observation a…
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
Ecofeminism as scholarship and practice continues to polarize, draw criticism, and inspire scholarly works
Re-Thinking Citizenship: (Un)Healthy Bodies and the Canadian Borde
The Canadian state screens potential citizens based on their physical and mental health in order to assess individuals' likelihood of becoming contributive and productive members of Canadian society. Immigrants are not only screened as potential security risks in a traditional sense, but appear in Canadian discourse as threats to economic stability. These potential citizens are consequently screened and surveilled for health concerns. This essay …
Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenou…
Guardians of the environment in Canada's Chemical Valley
Citizens of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation fight for justice with their bodies at the frontlines of daily toxic exposure. This paper examines struggles for environmental and reproductive justice in the polluted heart of Canada's 'Chemical Valley'. These are as struggles over life, land and knowledge. Based upon community-engaged qualitative research, from a participatory action research approach, including field immersion, participant observation a…
Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in 'Chemical Valley
Sensing policy: Engaging Affected Communities at the Intersections of Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures
Pushing back against an extractive approach to research to center relationships, this paper draws from ethnographic sensibilities and community vignettes to discuss what academic-activists and political scientists can learn from communities’ situated bodies of knowledge. Tensions emerge when those most directly affected by public policy decisions are excluded from the decision-making process. Consultation leaves many encountering a paradox: their…
Crisis Atmospheres: Sensing Life on Alert, A Visceral Response to Timothy Luke’s Anthropocene Alerts
Layered conditions of crises punctuate this present moment. Our bodies are all, unevenly, affected by a worldwide state of emergency. In Anthropocene Alerts, Timothy Luke diagnoses the slow violenc
Fluid Decolonial Futures: Water as a Life, Ocean Citizenship and Seascape Relationality
Interrogating the settler-colonial governmentality of natural resource extraction lies at the heart of this article while centering relationships to water and emergent forms of ocean citizenship. This article articulates a seascape epistemology that conceives of water as a life force, not a resource, and offers a non-extractive way to conceptualize ocean citizenship. From an environmental justice orientation, this article responds to the followin…
Limits of Nature, Limits of Critical Imagination
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: Better Together
Many people remain invisible in all stages of policymaking processes and are re/harmed by policy decisions made in their absence, even where public engagement has occurred. This lack of meaningful engagement affects those experiencing homelessness, migrant workers, northern and Indigenous women, and others with whom we have collaborated. This article demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ actors as legitimate a…
Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat
Grounded governance: Cultivating social justice through community-engaged learning with PepakeṈ HÁUTW̱ (Blossoming Place)
By deepening student relationships to local governance systems, they become better equipped to envision and enact the worlds they seek to create. This paper discusses a community-engaged learning initiative facilitated by a University of Victoria instructor that centered on the theme of “Grounded Governance” to anchor student learning about governance and social justice theories, movements and practices. The overall approach draws inspiration fro…
The beauty underneath: A critical coastal governance approach to revitalize indigenous shellfish harvest
Indigenous communities have feasted from their tidelands since time immemorial. Yet today, many are disconnected due to land development, pollution, overharvest, and colonial law. Coastal First Nations live within the reality of their inherent laws and ways of being, held in tension with the restrictions and confusion of Canadian laws, funding models and bureaucracies. There is a need to bring enriched understanding and clarity to coastal ecosyst…
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
Ecofeminism as scholarship and practice continues to polarize, draw criticism, and inspire scholarly works
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Environmental justice (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)